Literature

Over the past decade, 21 poets have come to La Kunsthalle Mulhouse to immerse themselves in the art and spend time within the space composing original texts reflecting on their experiences and vision of the work surrounding them. These writings are now collected in this volume.

A closer reading of the late poetry of Jean Hans Arp (1886-1966), major figure of the Dada movement in Zurich, a friend of the surrealists, painter, sculptor, also author of an important bilingual poetic work, which covers more than half a century of creation (with a choice of poems previously unpublished).

An analysis of the relationship between art and literature over the last six decades.

The letters of Maurice Blanchot to François Dominique, which illuminate one of the last editorial projects of Blanchot; “Maurice Blanchot, writing and power”; an unpublished letter from Blanchot on the Cuban Revolution; the 68 years of Blanchot...

The testamentary work of Jacques Sivan: a graphic poem on the body and its reincarnation through the language.

Diaphanes is conjuring the ghosts of the avant-garde for its Summer 2019 double issue, including a 80-page insert with 155 photos by Antoine d'Agata and an essay by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem.

The story of epoch-changing activist, prolific writer, and Swedish countercultural icon Katarina Taikon's life.

A short story by Pierre Loti (1850-1923), which tells the irremediable separation of a couple of beggars who have lived together for a long time, illustrated by a sound piece by Quentin Rollet and Romain Perrot (Vomir).

The fifth issue of the magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.

A selection of poems by Jean-François Bory covering more than fifty years of creation (1965-2019), from the most emblematic to the most recent, rare or previously unpublished.

The 5th experimental novel by French artist Béatrice Cussol.

A collective reassessment of Gertrude Stein's relationship to the arts, allowing to understand the complexity of the relationship between writing and visual arts in her work.

An essay on Philippe Beck, Jean-Paul Curnier and Michel Surya.

An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).

Angéline Neveu, a figure of May '68 then of the French poetic underground, close to the Situationists, tells herself and offers a testimony on the years 1960-70.

The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.

A journal of critical and political poetry.

Jean-Paul Fargier's film about the historical encounter between the filmmaker and the writer in 1984.

A total alchemy between the texts declaimed by the New York poet Steve Dalachinsky and the loops subtly arranged by the experimental rock band The Snobs.

A courtly tale that takes the form of prose poems, dedicated to Surrealist artist Benjamin Péret. Written by Emmanuelle K., poet, storyteller, video artist, and companion of the Situationist International.

The chronicles of the digital poetry movement, by one of its pioneers and main actors in France.

135 poems, calligrams and other visual experiments, spread over 54 years of poetic activity, by one of the major actors of the poetic avant-garde in France.

Fourteen comical, absurd, ironic, moving short novels, by Jean-François Bory, unfaithful successor to Dada and active author of the avant-garde movements of the 1960s/1970s.

A selection of essays that Jean-François Bory devoted to his favorite and somewhat marginal authors, ranging from Nadar to Raoul Hausmann via d'Annunzio.

From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory.

From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory, with an original and unique artwork.

Reissue of the main publications by Angéline Neveu (1946-2011), a political figure of the poetic underground scene in France.

This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou, with an audio link granting access to a recorded version of the publication, accompanied by a composition by sound artist motif_r.

This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou. The limited edition includes an original and unique artwork, as well as a CD with a sound declension of the poem, recorded by the author and accompanied by a composition of the sound artist motif_r.

Collection of transcripts of performance poetry by Christian Prigent. This edition comes with a CD including the recordings of these performances, featuring the author and actress Vanda Benes.

A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.

A magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.

Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.

First English translation of Antonin Artaud's writings from his apocalyptic journey to Ireland in 1937.

A novel.

17th issue proposes a journey through the many “mental geographies” deployed by 43 contributors, artists, historians, scientifics, and writers.

A collective exploration of 45 years of protean poetic activities, between printed text, exposed text and proffered text, with some thirty contributions by academics and poets, with numerous illustrations.

A biography of the founder of Pataphysics, by Alastair Brotchie.

Special issue dedicated to Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos.

This artist's book assembles 41 titles of literary works, transcribed in homophonic translation. An exercise in concrete poetry, stemming from the Oulipo tradition. To be seen as much as read.

Novel.

A film on poet and visual artist Jean-Luc Parant.

The score composed and recorded by KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg) for the dance piece ‘The Pyre', written and directed by Gisèle Vienne. A tensed composition haunted by the voice of Dennis Cooper.

A collection of experimental poetry.

This LP draws on twenty years of archives recorded by Charles Pennequin on mini-cassettes. Spontaneous recordings of his readings, unpublished solitary monologues, vocal and sound experiments, ambient sounds were selected and edited in the studio by the poet, and thought of as a global composition that goes through different registers and eras of his poetry.

The penultimate issue of Frédéric Acquaviva's audio / video hybrid magazine is dedicated to the works of Frédéric Acquaviva, Isidore Isou, and Orlan. It includes a CD of Isou's last sound work from 2006 and a DVD featuring performances by Orlan, Acquaviva, Isou, Sharif-Sky Mathius, Jeremiah Runnels, Mats Lindström, Jean-Paul Curtay…

This issue turns its attention to deception and censorship, violence and consumption, enjoyment and norm, to the techniques of taming and the economies of morality; it measures the distance between art and non-art, follows the beast of freedom in the aporias of form, searches out lucid angles of wild reflection, moments of anarchic seeing, new means of emancipation.